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Originally Posted by C_steam
Forty foot drop from the top - up in a nave with real difficulty securing the top of the ladder? Fancy climbing it the first time when the top ISN'T secured? sod that! I'd use scaffolding or staging any time in preference!
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That’s because you don’t do this for a living as you probably don’t stand in front of a lathe (with no guards) with a large piece of Brass spinning at 12,000 RPM.
This is ********, how do people get up 30 foot trees they use a ladder and secure it when they are at the top, how the hell can steeplejacks get to the top of a tower.
The trouble with this type of legislation it is written by people that have never done this type of work or are probably so scared of going up a ladder that they have to justify it by making rules that no one can.
Lets risk assess getting behind a V8 sports car or any car come to think of it, we would all have to travel around driving at 10 mph.
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Or, more correctly probably, "when contractors carried out a risk assessment, they understood that use of a ladder was far more dangerous than reasonable alternatives"
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Or more correctly the contractor thought I can use these new rules to screw you.